SLLSFO8C May   2024  – November 2025 TCAN2450-Q1 , TCAN2451-Q1

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1.   1
  2. 1 Features
  3. 2 Applications
  4. 3 Description
  5. 4 Device Comparison Table
  6. 5 Pin Configuration and Functions
  7. 6 Specifications
    1. 6.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 6.2  ESD Ratings
    3. 6.3  IEC ESD Ratings
    4. 6.4  Recommended Operating Conditions
    5. 6.5  Thermal Information
    6. 6.6  Supply Characteristics
    7. 6.7  Electrical Characteristics
    8. 6.8  Timing Requirements
    9. 6.9  Switching Characteristics
    10. 6.10 Typical Characteristics
  8. 7 Parameter Measurement Information
  9. 8 Detailed Description
    1. 8.1 Overview
    2. 8.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 8.3 Feature Description
      1. 8.3.1  CAN FD Transceiver
        1. 8.3.1.1 Driver and Receiver Function
      2. 8.3.2  VCC1 Regulator
        1. 8.3.2.1 Functional Description of Buck Regulator
          1. 8.3.2.1.1 Fixed Frequency Peak Current Mode Control
          2. 8.3.2.1.2 Minimum ON-Time, Minimum OFF-Time, and Frequency Foldback
          3. 8.3.2.1.3 Overcurrent and Short Circuit Protection
          4. 8.3.2.1.4 Soft Start
        2. 8.3.2.2 Buck Regulator Functional Modes
          1. 8.3.2.2.1 Buck Shutdown Mode
          2. 8.3.2.2.2 Buck Active Modes
      3. 8.3.3  VCC2 Regulator
        1. 8.3.3.1 VCC2 Short to Battery Protection
      4. 8.3.4  Reset Function (nRST Pin)
      5. 8.3.5  LIMP Function
      6. 8.3.6  High Side Switches
      7. 8.3.7  WAKE and ID Inputs
        1. 8.3.7.1 ID Functionality
      8. 8.3.8  Interrupt Function (nINT Pin)
      9. 8.3.9  SPI Communication
        1. 8.3.9.1 Cyclic Redundancy Check
        2. 8.3.9.2 Chip Select Not (nCS):
        3. 8.3.9.3 SPI Clock Input (SCK):
        4. 8.3.9.4 SPI Data Input (SDI):
        5. 8.3.9.5 SPI Data Output (SDO):
      10. 8.3.10 SW Pin
      11. 8.3.11 GFO Pin
      12. 8.3.12 Wake Functions
        1. 8.3.12.1 CAN Bus Wake Using RXD Request (BWRR) in Sleep Mode
        2. 8.3.12.2 Local Wake Up (LWU) via WAKEx Input Terminal
          1. 8.3.12.2.1 Static Wake
          2. 8.3.12.2.2 Cyclic Sensing Wake
        3. 8.3.12.3 Cyclic Wake
        4. 8.3.12.4 Selective Wake-up
          1. 8.3.12.4.1 Selective Wake Mode (TCAN2451-Q1)
          2. 8.3.12.4.2 Frame Detection
          3. 8.3.12.4.3 Wake-Up Frame (WUF) Validation
          4. 8.3.12.4.4 WUF ID Validation
          5. 8.3.12.4.5 WUF DLC Validation
          6. 8.3.12.4.6 WUF Data Validation
          7. 8.3.12.4.7 Frame Error Counter
          8. 8.3.12.4.8 CAN FD Frame Tolerance
          9. 8.3.12.4.9 8Mbps Filtering
      13. 8.3.13 Protection Features
        1. 8.3.13.1 Fail-safe Features
          1. 8.3.13.1.1 Sleep Mode Through Sleep Wake Error
        2. 8.3.13.2 Device Reset
        3. 8.3.13.3 Floating Terminals
        4. 8.3.13.4 TXD Dominant Time Out (DTO)
        5. 8.3.13.5 CAN Bus Short Circuit Current Limiting
        6. 8.3.13.6 Thermal Shutdown
        7. 8.3.13.7 Under and Over Voltage Lockout and Unpowered Device
          1. 8.3.13.7.1 Under-Voltage
            1. 8.3.13.7.1.1 VSUP and VHSS Under-voltage
            2. 8.3.13.7.1.2 VCC1 Under-Voltage
            3. 8.3.13.7.1.3 VCC2 Under-voltage
            4. 8.3.13.7.1.4 VCAN Under-voltage
          2. 8.3.13.7.2 VCC1 and VCC2 Over-voltage
          3. 8.3.13.7.3 VCC1 and VCC2 Short Circuit
        8. 8.3.13.8 Watchdog
          1. 8.3.13.8.1 Watchdog Error Counter and Action
          2. 8.3.13.8.2 Watchdog SPI Programming
            1. 8.3.13.8.2.1 Watchdog Configuration Lock Mechanism
              1. 8.3.13.8.2.1.1 Watchdog Configuration in SPI Two-byte Mode
          3. 8.3.13.8.3 Watchdog Timing
          4. 8.3.13.8.4 Question and Answer Watchdog
            1. 8.3.13.8.4.1 WD Question and Answer Basic Information
            2. 8.3.13.8.4.2 Question and Answer Register and Settings
            3. 8.3.13.8.4.3 WD Question and Answer Value Generation
              1. 8.3.13.8.4.3.1 Answer Comparison
              2. 8.3.13.8.4.3.2 Sequence of the 2-bit Watchdog Answer Counter
              3. 8.3.13.8.4.3.3 Question and Answer WD Example
                1. 8.3.13.8.4.3.3.1 Example Configuration for Desired Behavior
                2. 8.3.13.8.4.3.3.2 Example of performing a question and answer sequence
        9. 8.3.13.9 Bus Fault Detection and Communication
      14. 8.3.14 Customer EEPROM Programming
    4. 8.4 Device Functional Modes
      1. 8.4.1 Init Mode
      2. 8.4.2 Normal Mode
      3. 8.4.3 Standby Mode
      4. 8.4.4 Restart Mode
      5. 8.4.5 Fail-safe Mode
        1. 8.4.5.1 SBC Faults
        2. 8.4.5.2 CAN Transceiver Faults
      6. 8.4.6 Sleep Mode
  10. 9 Device Register Tables
    1. 9.1 Device Registers
  11. 10Application and Implementation
    1. 10.1 Application Information
      1. 10.1.1 CAN BUS Loading, Length and Number of Nodes
      2. 10.1.2 CAN Termination
        1. 10.1.2.1 CAN Bus Biasing
      3. 10.1.3 Device Brownout Information
    2. 10.2 Typical Application
      1. 10.2.1 Design Requirements
      2. 10.2.2 Detailed Design Procedures
        1. 10.2.2.1 CAN Detailed Design Procedure
      3. 10.2.3 Application Curves
    3. 10.3 Power Supply Recommendations
    4. 10.4 Layout
      1. 10.4.1 Layout Guidelines
      2. 10.4.2 Layout Example
  12. 11Device and Documentation Support
    1. 11.1 Documentation Support
      1. 11.1.1 CAN Transceiver Physical Layer Standards:
      2. 11.1.2 EMC Requirements:
      3. 11.1.3 Conformance Test Requirements:
      4. 11.1.4 Related Documentation
    2. 11.2 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
    3. 11.3 Support Resources
    4. 11.4 Trademarks
    5. 11.5 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    6. 11.6 Glossary
  13. 12Revision History
  14. 13Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

10.1.1 CAN BUS Loading, Length and Number of Nodes

The ISO11898-2:2024 standard specifies a maximum bus length of 40m and maximum stub length of 0.3m. However, with careful design, users can have longer cables, longer stub lengths, and many more nodes to a bus. A high number of nodes require a transceiver with high input impedance such as this transceiver family.

Many CAN organizations and standards have scaled the use of CAN for applications outside the original ISO11898-2:2024 standard. The CAN organizers made system level trade off decisions for data rate, cable length, and parasitic loading of the bus. Examples of these CAN systems level specifications are ARINC825, CANopen, DeviceNet, SAEJ2284, SAEJ1939, and NMEA200.

A CAN network system design is a series of tradeoffs. In ISO11898-2 the driver differential output is specified with a 60Ω bus load (the two termination resistors in parallel) where the differential output must be greater than 1. V. The TCAN245x-Q1 is specified to meet the 1.5V requirement with a across this load range and is specified to meet 1.4V differential output at 45Ω bus load. The differential input resistance of this family of transceiver is a minimum of 30kΩ. If 167 of these transceivers are in parallel on a bus, this is equivalent to an 180Ω differential load in parallel with the 60Ω from termination gives a total bus load of 45Ω. Therefore, this family theoretically supports over 167 transceivers on a single bus segment with margin to the 1.2V minimum differential input voltage requirement at each receiving node. However, for CAN network design margin must be given for signal loss across the system and cabling, parasitic loadings, timing, network imbalances, ground offsets and signal integrity thus a practical maximum number of nodes is much lower. Bus length may also be extended beyond the original ISO11898-2:2024 standard of 40m by careful system design and data rate tradeoffs. For example, CANopen network design guidelines allow the network to be up to 1km with changes in the termination resistance, cabling, less than 64 nodes and significantly lowered data rate.

This flexibility in CAN network design is one of its key strengths allowing for these system level network extensions and additional standards to build on the original ISO11898-2 CAN standard. However, when using this flexibility, the CAN network system designer must take the responsibility of good network design to make sure robust network operation.